I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.

You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You’re not a human being until you’re in my phone book.